Teaching Strategies To Improve Listening Skills
Marie Amaro
- Teaching Strategies
- Social Emotional Learning
by Janelle Cox, Education Writer, M.A.Ed
You'll be coming in loud and clear to your students with these strategies.
A while back, I was co-teaching a third-grade bilingual summer school class in a low-income urban setting. I didn't speak any Spanish except for a few words I remembered from a class I took in high school. I found myself, as well as my co-teacher, having a hard time getting the students to listen. They had become so reliant on us repeating ourselves that it just became part of our daily structure. I wanted to encourage active listening, so I decided to try a few different strategies. Here are five ways that I got my students to actively listen that summer.